Saw Stop

You have to compare it to a powermatic saw I think. It's that level of
quality and refinement. Admitedly, not everyone can afford (or wants
to afford) a saw that expensive. For me, I have to think long and hard
about whether it's better to get a grizzly 12" saw with all the goodies
and an overarm blade guard.
iirc, their contractor's saw is supposed to be around $1500. Still
more than twice what a grizzly would cost.
It's a calculated risk that everyone has to decide to take or not.
For now, I'll use my dangerous delta contractor's saw the way it is
until I can pay for an overarm blade guard.
brian

--For me this was a second tablesaw: a replacement for a "make do"
beater of a Rockwell contractor's saw; a much-anticipated upgrade. I looked
at Delta, Powermatic and Jet before deciding that the Saw Stop was the best
of all possible worlds. Remember you'll keep a tablesaw a *lot* longer than
you'd keep a car for instance, so best to do it right, yes?

--I don't think it was *that* much. Will have to go look at the
reciept again I guess. Worth every penney tho..

Last week I saw one in the Bay area, It is selling over $3K. The only
downside; everytime the stop activated you will have to replace the
cartridge and the saw blade.... Maybe, you finger is worth more than
the cartridge and the blades?
.

Last I heard, they were replacing the cartridge for free if you sent them the
fired one. Supposedly they're collecting data so that offer may have gone
away or go away at any time.
And if you fire it more than once I seriously suggest a different hobby :-).

--Yah; one way I kept cost down was by taking the Biesmeyer fence
off of my beater, so I didn't have to pay for that one again. I like the
original better than Delta's new version of it. Pity they bought the
company... Also the guy who mentioned the fairly high price said that he
bought a pile of cartridges and I only bought one. I've got the single-phase
motor; not sure if it's 3hp or not but I opted for a low-end power motor as
I don't do enough work to justify paying top dollar there either. Yeah,
still pricey but cheaper than fingers, yes? $3k would only buy me 2 month's
worth of Blue Cross coverage, so thinking about it that way was a
no-brainer, sigh...

If I were you, I'd buy up all the SawStops you can at <$2K and then
turn around and sell them all easily at $2.9K, easily underselling
everyone else, and turning a tidy profit for yourself.
Of course this fantasy fails on the initial premise--finding SawStops
for even 150% of $2K.

Yep. He wanted 8% of the wholsale price of the saw. On a $2300 saw
(Amazon's price on a PM66), that's $184. Plus, the mechanism itself was
estimated to add about $150 to the price, so now the "safe" version of
the saw costs at least $334 more.

If it was offered as an option from many manufacturers for $150 over the
regular saw, I suspect there would be a lot of takers.
Trying to force companies to put it on every saw out there (at 8% per
saw going to SawStop) is a whole different story.
Chris

The $2300 is not the wholesale price.
I wonder what every manufacturer has to pay in royalties for the current
guards. You might be surprised what you pay for in the products you buy.
If you ever bought a Pontiac TransAm, you paid extra for just the TramsAm
name.

I was surprised to learn recently that he ran a big scam to light up America
that apparently made the Enron fiasco pale by comparison. Apparently he was
penniless and had to go to trial but was forgiven by the jury since he did
in fact light up America and ended up broke.

There was dirty dealing all around in the effort to "light up
America." Edison, promoting his direct current system, charged
(sorry) that Tesla's alternating current was dangerous and distributed
literature showing electrocuted animals as examples. He conveniently
failed to note that electrocution by DC was more than a remote
possibility, as well. Note the signs in subway or elevated stations.
The trains, in Chicago at least, run on DC, as I recall.
Edison's failed campaign, incidentally, eventually led to the
development of the electric chair for executions of criminals.

there was a magazine last month or so that just did a review of them.
Summary.. the quality was good. On the cabinent saw, you pay roughly a
$1000 premium.
The "table" portion of the saw was roughly 3 inches longer, which is
nice, IMO.
When the saw stop break engages, it destroys the break and the saw
blade, but it saves your hand. Very favorable review. If you are
interested, I can find the magazine and issue number.

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